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Music in 2013 - where are we going?
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#92390
Music in 2013 - where are we going? 12 Years, 5 Months ago  
Well, for whatever reason the music is less important than it was; either because we tend to lose enthusiasm as we age or through specialisation, the days of tunes having incredible impact (which lasted all our lives) is over.

Today's kids and teens, who used to rank music as their No1 influence, has replaced it with a variety of entertainment areas - from games to online social forums to movies.

There's no point in moaning about it or trying to change the world so those happy, heady days return. It will never be the 60s or 70s again.

As a business - it's different and less lucrative. As a creative art form, it has less impact. As a social essential, it's become non essential.

We kids of the 50s and 60s were dead lucky. Today's youth has different parameters, values, morals, appreciation levels, skills...
 
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#92398
Metal Mickey

Re:Music in 2013 - where are we going? 12 Years, 5 Months ago  
You're right JK, but I'm sure it's more about "delivery" than "content."

Pound-for-pound, there's probably as much good music being produced as there ever has been, but what's changed is the ability for tracks to "cut-through" to the mainstream, as it's now far to easy for everyone to set their own personal filters to "ignore".

It used to be that everyone knew what the number 1 record was, either through TOTP, broad-appeal radio programming, clubs playing chart pop tracks, even vinyl jukeboxes, all things of the past. Now, no-one knows (or cares) what's number 1, and what's more worrying is that virtually no songs are becoming "future classics" - the last wedding discos I've been to were still utterly reliant on 70s & 80s tracks, with only the odd "Crazy In Love" or "Gangnam Style" to remind us it's the 21st century...
 
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#92515
andrew

Re:Music in 2013 - where are we going? 12 Years, 5 Months ago  
MM your right about disco's and weddings relying heavily on 70's and 80's. In the 90's I just listened to mainly Indie but only songs seems to be played at parties etc, for 90's music We Are Young by Supergrass and Wonderwall by Oasis people seem to of Forgotten Sitdown by James which is the best song for a party.
 
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#92516
William Wallace

Re:Music in 2013 - where are we going? 12 Years, 5 Months ago  
Brilliant post from Cambridge graduate.
 
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Last Edit: 2013/01/12 07:37 By JK2006.
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#92545
NCS

Re: Music in 2013 - where are we going? 12 Years, 5 Months ago  
Many - like zillions - of people don't have a hi-fi system or CD player these days. It's all streaming, online radio or downloads in whatever device they're glued to.

Still going to be new acts though, but maybe no new ideas.
 
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